Aryan Garg

I'm a 2nd year CS PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Professor Mohit Gupta.

I have been fortunate to work with many brilliant professors and experts throughout my journey. Prof. Renu Rameshan ignited my interest in computer vision early during my Bachelor's at IIT Mandi which also led me to exploring generative modeling for outdoor lighting during my junior year with Prof. Jean-François Lalonde and Dr. Yannick Hold-Geoffroy. After graduating, I spent a wonderful year at IIT Madras getting closer to sensors alongside developing 3D reconstruction and generative facial video editing methods as a Bosch Research Fellow at the Computational Imaging Lab directed by Prof. Kaushik Mitra. Interestingly, my vision sensors and generative interests got a human touch to them as I spent the summer of '24 at the Computational Behaviour Lab, advised by Prof. Antti Oulasvirta and now Professor, Yue Jiang.

Apart from research, I enjoy riding my motorcycle, cooking, playing Fortnite with my close friends Julian Fabinc and Franzi on the weekends. I also love classic game titles like RDR2 and MOBAs: AoE2, LoL, Rust.

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My research interests lie at the intersection of generative modeling, computational imaging, and visual aesthetics. My research aim is a bidirectional one: capturing the richness of our visual world to preserve memories as we saw them is a core goal, and in turn, this goal acts as a grounding physical harness for generative models. Ultimately, I envision a future where generative image and video models behave less like black boxes and more like renderers of reality, offering precise, compositional control to further creativity through visual editing.